The Third's words had made it impossible for Sawada Hiroki to remain calm in the hospital.
Danzo.
The name surfaced in his mind.
The "certain people" the Third had mentioned were undoubtedly that old geezer from Root. In all those Naruto fanfics, he was always famous as the fall guy. He was the only one who could stand up to the Third and even defy his will to some extent.
When Sarutobi Hiruzen said he didn't want to disappoint certain people too much, he was probably talking about not disappointing Danzo.
The Third had said not to disappoint him, while he'd said not to disappoint Danzo too much. And he wanted Hiroki to show "an ability that wasn't too dangerous." Clearly, he meant Hiroki's Kekkei Genkai.
In other words, the Golden Finger he'd displayed.
This Golden Finger definitely needed to be useful, but it also couldn't be too useful. He had to show his talent—something independent of his Kekkei Genkai. Perhaps that was what the Third had meant.
Talent tied to a Kekkei Genkai could be inherited. If Hiroki didn't show any talent that was uniquely his, perhaps even the Third wouldn't protect him much. Could he end up as one of Orochimaru's test subjects?
No, it probably wasn't that dangerous. The Third was still the Hokage, after all. He wouldn't tell a child too much, but having him become a test subject didn't really fit the image the Third had cultivated in Konoha.
So the most likely outcome was that if Hiroki didn't stand out in other areas, the village would give him fewer resources and less protection.
Third, you really are...
Hiroki grumbled inwardly.
This was a problem that had to be solved while walking on a knife's edge.
So how could he get out of this predicament?
Ideally, he needed to develop a technique that showed off the nature of his Kekkei Genkai, but had enough limitations to seem less powerful...
As he thought it over, Hiroki soon came up with an idea.
As a programmer, what did you need to do to create a program with offensive capabilities?
The answer: find vulnerabilities! Write a Trojan! Launch a server attack!
The first thing that came to Hiroki's mind was a Denial-of-Service attack.
The idea flashed through his mind like lightning.
That was it!
He could write a "program"—a script!
The script would exploit a vulnerability he'd identified while connecting to the hospital's WiFi just now: when they'd put up mental defenses and were acting with hostility, their temporary cache folders weren't protected!
That meant Hiroki could write a script that would run automatically once it connected to a target, then endlessly copy and paste every fleeting thought the target generated into their [Temp] (temporary thought cache)!
For example, the person might have a single thought:
"What am I thinking?" -> copy -> "What am I thinking? What am I thinking?" -> copy -> "What am I thinking? What am I thinking? What am I thinking? What am I thinking?"
Repeating the process without end would cause the thought to multiply rapidly the instant Hiroki made contact with the target, filling their mind with useless thoughts!
That way, they wouldn't be able to think about whether to use Hand Seals or attack with Taijutsu. They might not even be able to form Hand Seals. And if he took it further, perhaps they wouldn't even be able to maintain their balance, leaving them in a state of "mental shutdown"!
They'd be entirely at his mercy!
This technique met every requirement perfectly!
First, it was powerful—a control technique with a significant effect.
Second, it was "not too dangerous," because it didn't steal any vital secrets, like ninjutsu or memories. It only caused temporary confusion. More importantly, it required a connection to work.
That meant that if someone had information on him, his current physical abilities wouldn't actually let him make contact with them. He'd seem to have a glaring "weakness" that they could exploit!
That should meet the requirement to show off his abilities without making them seem too dangerous!
At the thought, Hiroki could no longer lie still. He immediately immersed himself in his consciousness space, on the deep-blue desktop.
His thoughts became a mouse cursor: [Right-click -> New -> Text Document.txt].
A blank document appeared. He renamed it [Brain Overload Script.bat].
He double-clicked to open it. His thoughts became lines of code, "typing" rapidly into the document:
@echo off
:: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
But as soon as he typed the first line, Hiroki frowned.
He'd just realized something.
Wasn't his system made by some company called Windows? Its Windows system seemed to use Chinese code! In the thought-cache folder, he'd seen that the cache files were all named in Chinese.
Their paths also contained a lot of Chinese.
This might mean the underlying programming language was different from the one he knew from Windows. Would his program still run properly? Should he write the script in Chinese, or use batch-file language?
Hiroki took a deep breath.
Never mind. He'd write both scripts and test them out.
Silent mode enabled
Enable delayed variable expansion
If mental connection is not established, then (
Exit program
Set target path=C:\Users%TargetName%\AppData\Local\Temp
If checking directory "%TargetPath%" fails, then (
Exit program
Set attack intensity=10
:: This value represents how many times each original thought will be copied and amplified
Set overload threshold=10000
:: Pause the attack when the number of junk files in the temporary folder exceeds this value.
Begin attack loop:
:: Step 1: Scan all thought-cache files currently belonging to the target
Run loop for each file in directory ("%TargetPath%*.tmp") (
:: Step 2: Copy and amplify each thought file found several times
Run loop %%i from 1 to %AttackIntensity% in increments of 1 (
:: Step 3: Generate new, scrambled, meaningless filenames for the copied junk files
Set random number=a randomly generated number
Copy "%TargetPath%%%~nxF""%TargetPath%%%~nF_copy_!RandomNumber!.tmp">nul
:: Check whether the number of junk files has reached the threshold
Set total file count=0
Run loop for each file in directory ("%TargetPath%*.tmp") (set /a file count+=1)
If %FileCount% is greater than %OverloadThreshold%, then (jump to attack complete)
:: Pause briefly, then begin the next scan and amplification round
Pause /t 0 >nul
Jump to begin attack loop
Attack complete:
Exit program
Once he'd finished the program, Hiroki changed the file extension to .bat so he could launch it easily.
Next, he needed to find a suitable target and test the attack program he'd written in Chinese against the one written in his original programming language!
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